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In today’s newsletter: Netflix is the only profitable streaming service; Meta’s automated support software frustrates advertisers; and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission may designate Amazon a “distributor of goods.”

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Board Games The LG Ads board of directors has three new members. Or, more accurately, two previous board members – Alphonso co-founders Ashish Chordia and Lampros Kalampoukas, who were fired as part of an orchestrated corporate coup in late December 2022 – have […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Don’t Look For Me The FTC isn’t slowing its crackdown on location data brokers. On Thursday, it issued a complaint against InMarket for failing to obtain informed consent from users on its own apps and third-party apps that use InMarket’s SDK before collecting […]

Roku is making more space for brands on its home screen because it’s a good place to reach viewers with lower-funnel marketing messages.

CTV advertising is evolving from prepubescent into a profitable industry, so expect the nascent trends of last year – namely, a focus on measurement and data, transparency, targeting and programmatic – to shape CTV’s next phase of life.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take Initiative Meet yet another TV ad standards initiative. GroupM announced the Ad Innovation Accelerator on Thursday, which it hopes could lead to more nonstandard streaming ad formats – and technical standards for those formats to make sure they can run on any […]

Recent conversations in the connected TV industry make much ado about performance. But what does it really mean for CTV to be a “performance channel”?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Addressable Auspices Traditional TV advertisers are hesitant to try addressable products because they’re expensive and hard to scale. But programmatic TV ad buying is making addressable more accessible, said Sara Wallace, FreeWheel’s senior director of product management, speaking at an event on Wednesday […]

Roku announced a new partnership with Unity to help gaming and mobile app developers add CTV to their user acquisition campaigns by giving them performance marketing attribution for streaming.

Viewers might want to watch trashy shows from time to time, but they certainly don’t want to watch trashy ads. For the solution to what ails CTV, the industry could turn to another rapidly growing marketing favorite: retail media.